Wednesday, 9 June 2021

EF34 11am June 9

 

Good morning, everybody.

We will get started at 11:00.

Cameras on. Mics muted.

 

Today’s agenda:

 

1.    Discuss paragraph work-

Grabber-

I would like to see you using grabbers at the beginning of your paragraphs.

Intro sentence- attention getter

1. short anecdote

2. history

3. fact or statistic

4. question

5. saying

6.quotation

7.general to specific, funnel

 

Descriptive paragraph – girl or river

 

          river

          When I was a kid, I loved spending time by the water, whether it was the ocean, a lake, or a river. This is beautiful picture of a river valley.

 

          Do you enjoy spending time by the water? This is a photograph of a beautiful river which you might want to visit. The sky is a light blue with thin wispy clouds floating by.

 

 

Topic sentence – gives the topic, your perspective, your focus

woman

The outer appearance of people can reveal their inside. This is a photograph of a very beautiful and elegant looking woman. Her dark curly hair is covered with a scarf. Her eyes are

 

Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

For next paragraph, I want you to make sure you begin with a grabber.

 

I didn’t teach you about grabbers?

 

* run-on sentences-

You really have to watch out for these. This is a challenge. You can figure them out.

She has big brown eyes they are very soulful. RO

She has big brown eyes. They are very soulful. SIMPLE

She has big brown eyes, and they are very soulful. COMPOUND

She has big brown eyes which are very soulful. COMPLEX- adj cl

Her eyes are very soulful because they are big and brown. COMPLEX- adv cl

 

soulful – deep and a little sad

soulful singing – feel the emotion

 

Sentence types: simple compound complex

 

 

 

 

Put any sentences from your paragraph that you want to discuss in Chat:

1.    Behind the trees, there are a few mountains, but it can’t see any plants on it. It looks like a big rock.

Behind the trees, there are a few mountains, but there are no plants on it. It looks like a big rock.

2.    Her eyes is sparkle as a star in night sky.

Her eyes sparkle like stars in the night sky.

Her eyes are sparkling like stars in the night sky.

 

3.    There are some woods logs? sticks? floating on the water because there are lots of trees on the two sides.

 

4.    She has a beautiful long nose, and thin.

She has a beautiful long nose, and it is thin.

She has a beautiful long thin nose.

She has a beautiful long nose that is thin.

 

5.    Beautiful mountains that I think have a little snow on there. frag

The beautiful mountains have a little bit of snow on them.

 

6.    There is a turquoise lake surrounded by mountains.

7.    I guess, you can feel that how this Asian girl is beautiful.

You can feel that how beautiful this Asian girl is.

You can feel how cold it is outside.

You can imagine how hard Math 12 is.

You can tell how much she loves her kids.

 

 

8.    Her piercing looks can mesmerize everyone.

 

piercing eyes – intense look

9.    She is wearing a headscarf, but I can tell she has long and silky black hair.

 

10.                       There are several white cotton clouds are floating in the blue sky.

 

There are several white cotton clouds floating in the blue sky.

Several white cotton clouds are floating in the blue sky.

 

11.                       I go to travel last year. I visit Toronto. I had good time

I went traveling last year. I visited Toronto. I had a good time.

 

12.                       There are some tree beside the house, and the river behind the big tree.

There are some trees beside the house, and the river is behind the big tree.

13.                       This picture from our daily, which we see every day in our loved city "British Columbia ." RW

This picture is something that/which we see every day in our beloved/lovely province, British Columbia.

 

14.                       The color of the mountains in front is brighter. You may be wrong to think that the tops of the mountains are covered with snow

The color of the mountains is brighter in front. It appears that tops of the mountains are covered with snow.

 

 

 

Tomorrow:

-Begin sentence fragment work

-Begin process writing

 

Idioms:

similes- comparison between two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

- the two things are different in nature, but we say that they resemble each other

My son looks like five toothpicks.

My son is as thin as bamboo.

My sister’s son is like a toothpick.

She sleeps like a log.

He looks like a million dollars. He looks great.

 

-hungry as a bear 

-crazy as a loon- funloving, like to have fun, joyful

-happy as a lark-

-cool as a cucumber – relaxed, do not get upset easily

-busy as a beaver/ bee

-quick as a wink  - very quickly “I finished my homework quick as a wink.”

-crazy like a fox – tricky, be careful of this person. They seem foolish, but actually they are very clever.

Boris Johnson is crazy like a fox.

-nutty as a fruitcake  - very fun and funloving

-free as a bird -independent, no worries, single

-poor as a churchmouse – no money, broke

 

 

 

 

 

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